A Common Sun (2024)

23rd Sept to 2nd Nov, 2024
Giberd Gallery, Water Gardens
Harlow

A Common Sun (2024) presented two newly commissioned artworks, supported by Arts Council England, Harlow Art Trust & The Royal College of Art. A sculpture sited in the historic Water Gardens, responds to the remarkable instruments of Indian Astronomer Sawai Jai Singh and our attempts to orientate ourselves with the sun. In the Gibberd Gallery next door, a light installation collects and depicts a variety of solar myths and their continuing relevance to seeking balance in a fractured environment.

Our ever-changing relationship to the sun can be traced by the myths we imagine and the technologies we invent. Ancient myths have long told of human desire to control the sun - to both push away the sun or bring it closer.

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